| Personal hell software |
[Sep. 8th, 2005|09:05 pm] |
I saw this and could not rezist.... One of the personal mottos Ive adopted is "always judge and prepare to be judged" (Assuming that you understand what you are seeing have ruled out tricks, illusion, or any known frailty of human perception) (Should always update your knoledge of the background and histroy of what you judge as much as possible with the time you have) With these disclaimers the above motto holds up rather well! I will add short snipits to future entries explaining my picks for each level so you can judge for yourself the validity of my choices conserning who should suffer what torture.
I personally don't like refrences to hell or demons/ god and such but I half to face the facts we live in a culture soaked in the brackish stagnant waters of organized religion both secular and otherwise. At least the imagrey is fun to work with and can be grasped by a large audience :)
General asshats, Democrats
Circle I Limbo Gray Davis
Circle II Whirling in a Dark & Stormy Wind The Pope, Bill Clinton
Circle III Mud, Rain, Cold, Hail & Snow Scientologists
Circle IV Rolling Weights PETA Members, Greens, Militant Vegans
Circle V Stuck in Mud, Mangled River Styx Uday Hussein
Circle VI Buried for Eternity River Phlegyas Qusay Hussein
Circle VII Burning Sands Saddam Hussein
Circle IIX Immersed in Excrement Osama bin Laden
Circle IX Frozen in Ice Design your own hell |
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| Ethics Of Cloning |
[Aug. 17th, 2005|07:43 am] |
Well it’s been a thought provoking day. I just bought screened a little advertised movie known as The Island. Yes the film was heavy on special effects and action sequences and lighter on the drama (but then I felt that was part of the movies charm). Ewan McGregor and Scarlet Johansson are the run away clones at the center of the film so it did not lack for “hard body” appeal and talented acting. Yet the movie was a box office flop. Sort of a tragic run for such a good film but as little advertised as it was and coming at the tail end of the summer movie season could not have helped either.
Unfortunately part of the movies box office demise was blamed on the fact that audiences just did not understand the technology and concepts contained in it. (see http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,12589,1549480,00.html for more detail) The issues contained in the film are extraordinarily prescient and these issues we WILL half to be dealt with when we are at state of technological maturity to encounter them. (Probably in a decade or three if the predictions of most bio scientists are actuate) Until then the American public is nothing if not curious and apprehensive that the same technique that brought us Dolly the cloned sheep could also bring us face to face with copies of ourselves.
In a high school debate class I once advocated the use of technology to grow human organs so that those who could afford the high expense could add another 30-70 years on to their life spans. However I was very stern on the point that the technology and technique used would half to be one where an individual human organ or group of organs was grown was grown in isolation. In other words you could clone a heart, liver, or any other organ so long as the cloning of the brain was prohibited. The human brain in my opinion cannot even be classified as an organ of the body. Support for this view is as follows.
• (1) Both humans and animals have bodies and bodies provide movement, processing of material that is consumed or synthesized, sensory impressions of the environment and a few basic instincts honed over millions of years of evolution (only the most fit survived). Animals must live in the world as it is and by and large react to it by automation but cannot shape the world to meet its needs or its desires. An animals life is shaped by and limited completely by the abilities of its body as it only has enough instructions and instincts inside it to survive in any given moment but no more.
• You will notice that what intellectuals call “the human brain” are actually 3 separate regions and only one of which is unique to or significantly prominent in humans. When I speak of the human brain I am generally talking about the Cerebral cortex which allows us to do math, use tools that no animal could, and to form complex concepts to EXPLAIN and often CONTROL observable events. The cerebral cortex also allow the “mammal brain” (the brain that produces emotions for the purposes of social bonding)
• In comatose paticents all the other organs in the body can survive even when much of the brain is dead or nearly inactive. Only the reptile brain (the oldest most primitive structure in their) which controls involuntary movements such as the beat of your heart, breathing, reflexes and other such things will affect your body if it is damaged. People have often taken gunshot wounds (or other trauma) to the head and their personality was essentially wiped out by the event killing them in every way that mattered, but with the care of an intuition their bodies lived on for another 20-30 or more years. (very sad but true) Some tiny shard of conciseness might continue to reside in these people struggling in vain to find expression but none that we can detect.
• Organs of the human body tend to be fully formed at birth and perform their function in mostly the same way through out their lifespan. Even the organs that cause so much consternation in puberty are there at birth but switched off or on “stand by” mode waiting for their moment to “switch on”. The cerebral cortex or “human brain” is constantly changing. If you teach a man to juggle he will gain sections of his brain that were not their before and if he then lets his skill in juggling be lost from disuse those new sections will disappear and be replaced by others. No organ of your body can change itself so much and still function properly even as a result of environmental pressure in so brief a span of time. Changes to human organs that might take millions of years to come about only take the human brain but a very short time indeed. The organs of your body run on Sir Isaacs Newton’s laws of physics while the human brain cannot even be fully explained within the boundaries of some of our newest most accurate to date observations on the structure of reality.
• Think of your body as a factory that moves physical things about in a routine organized and relatively unchanging way (within certain maximums and minimums). The reptile brain is like the industrial era manager on the factory floor who just passes down orders from his boss above him and is only capable and trained to give a limited but important list of instructions on his own for range of the moment emergences that may pop up. The mammal brain sits right above the reptile brain and its function is more ambiguous like the accountants of a firm that give monthly or quarterly printouts about the health of the firm and its relationships with other entities with whom it must deal to survive.
• For billions of years these first two brains were under the management of biological evolution and boy did things change very slowly in that time. Then new management slowly took over for evolution and the “laws of the jungle”. This new management was the human brain. If the workers are like your organs and the accountants are your emotions then the creative genus is your Cerebral cortex. The mere facts alone that it is generally referred to by its Latin name and not some name that refers to earlier stage life forms should tell you something. The cerebral cortex is the Elbert Einstein, Alexander Graham bell, and Thomas Edison in us all. The reptile brain handles the bare basics of survival while the mammal brain handles the bare basics of socialization between organisms that have an instinct for living in packs. Once evolution fashioned the Cerebral Cortex it was on its way to loosing control over the being (man) it created. You may notice that I capitalize Cerebral Cortex because even the most brutal thug or deluded religious witch doctor still must use that part of their brain to some extent even if they try to escape thought with drugs or ignoring the evidence of their senses their mind keeps integrating its experiences into concepts. Many humans act as if thinking is a painful task (and I do admit it is quite strenuous) and try to avoid thinking for themselves when ever they can.
Well I’ve made my case about why the brain is not an ORGAN of the body and is instead you the person you are and not some slightly more advanced form of the animals that came before! The brain cannot be allowed to be cloned because no human society can survive for long on deceit and brute force where viable alternatives exist. Humanity does have a problem however, the mammal brain that handles our emotions and for thousands of years our emotions were receiving rewards for being submissive, dominant or hostile. This genetic legacy has not left us as most human beings still have to be trained to be creative while being tyrannical, seductive, or parasitic tends to be a state of default. While it might be fun to play act or confine these roles to a private sexual context. These destructive urges to control and dominate or summit and appease evil people could destroy us and nuclear weapons are the least of our worries. The Right of man to his own mind must not be infringed by any means. I am very lassie fair about most things involving private enterprise but on cloning is not one of them.
While I may be hastily in proposing this government should have the power it has always had to enforce property rights OF THE INDIVIDUAL including fully fledged clones. Human organs currently belonging to an INDIVIDUAL mind would be under this protection too but not those grown inside lower animals (the human ear grown inside a mouse) or a human hand grown in a test tube. DNA of an individual human would be his property and should never be transferable to any non human entity with legal powers (IE corporations). Technology for the first time might give might give the vicious a loop hole around the prohibitions against slave labor which America fought a civil war to enforce. Some property stricken parts of the world don’t even enforce their own statues against slave labor even today. I will write more thoughts on this later so stay alert for part two. |
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| Vampire hours and Heated voices |
[Apr. 30th, 2005|07:25 am] |
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Streaching out sitting at the cusp of a a brand new day...
As the worknite ends and I reflect upon the day to begin as my thoughts stand near the oblivion of sleep...
There Fridays are my Mondays and their Mondays are my Fridays
Vampire hours and sleepless night but no work to speak of.
Such is the life of the midnite security guard...
I think a pretty French girl might be in to me and I will send her my voice though she lives far away!!
More on this latter on. When I am in the chatty mood! |
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| Political Opponents Silenced |
[Dec. 9th, 2004|09:00 am] |
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The genteel reader will note that most of this post is in the form of a letter to a man named Steve Gardner who helped blow the whistle about Presidential candidate John Kerry’s past as an ardently left wing anti war activist during the Vietnam war. The sergeant who served alongside Kerry during that war remembers a very different John Kerry then the citizen soldger paraded before the cameras of the liberal media. For his truth and honesty he has been smeared and the company that employed him strangely terminated his employment just days after he appeared on television and radio to relate his own not so flattering stories about Kerry. Gardner’s testimony against Kerry is especially damming since he is one of the few Swift Boat Veterans who actually served under Kerry on the same boat Kerry commanded. If you agree with my views related in my letter to Mr. Gardner please send him a letter of support to him of your own. This Veteran could also use a bit of financial assistance in this time of hardship brought out by his devotion to simple honesty.
Dear Steve Gardner
Your courageous stand against the lies of John Kerry has saved many an American the misery of seeing Kerry defile the most sacred intuitions from the inside out. However I will not insult you by saying you did it selflessly or as an act of charity to “your fellow man”. Exposing the truth about John Kerry not only emboldened the best, most honest and sacred traits of your personality, but I am certain that the results of election night filled you with joy. Crime doesn’t pay its perpetrators well, as long as those who see it first hand stand up for the truth and the sort of world they want to live in.
Fact of the matter is that some people go through their entire careers without the satisfaction you have just received. Many a police officer would love to stop a criminal before the heinous crime is committed. To be the “avenging angel” of the law so to speak is a very sweet thing. True you did lose your job and were hectored by a snot nosed reporter named Douglas Brinkley of Time Magazine. Oh well these wounds will heal in time and the opportunity to sue the company that fired you will present itself in due course. Indeed such a noble and independent sprit as you could make you one powerful capitalist at the head of his own enterprise. Your sense of justice and truth could make you a hard hitting journalist to be reckoned with should you possess a facility for the written word. You have helped defeat Kerry before his crimes of the 60s could be repeated on the country as a whole some 35 years later.
I see your future a few years down the road as being brighter than recent times may make it seem. If your conduct in preventing the fraud of John Kerry is any reflection on your character, then you will go far in life and I am proud to write you in support, under that very assumption. In any case your simple speaking of the truth at a critical moment may have done more good than the works of some of our most highly trained solders at arms today in Iraq. We lost the Vietnam War because Lyndon Banes Johnson did all he could to keep our men from final victory (mainly due to his lies and stupidly). Your actions this year have helped ensure that another Johnson was not elected to the presidency at this crucial period in our ongoing war against terror itself.
Sincerely Gordon E Angelino (author)
I wrote this letter to Gardner just one day ago and recived word of his plight just 2 days before the listed date. Gardner can be reached at sgardner5@carolina.rr.com or at P.O. Box 908 Clover, SC 29710 |
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| A New Cold War? |
[Dec. 3rd, 2004|12:07 am] |
We are living in magnificent times. Never has the choice between good and evil ever been so clear. In one corner we have a super power that has pushed for freedom in both expression and commerce. In the other corner religious dictatorships and the terrorists they sponsor desperately try to keep all in fear, knowing that few would willingly choose the ideas they offer - except at the point of a gun. Even the state socialists who committed some of the most obscene acts of the 20th century, at least pretended to practice the ideals of renaissance and the enlightenment. Even the old Soviets pretended they were the wave of the future with words like “new communist men” “scientific socialism” as they raced to steal the technology of the rational capitalist west.
When the Berlin Wall was finally torn down and Gorbachev ousted in favor of Boris Yeltsin, political satirist Jeff McNelly rightly referred to him as “Boris Washington”. Almost everybody breathed a sigh of relief and so did I, but I did not think for one moment that the west’s troubles were over. I even gave an oral presentation about why America still needed a defense against ballistic missiles and sited recent events in the middle east as an example of why. That was in the early 90s when I was still a high school student and the world has changed since then. Hoped as I might that my position would be wrong, I am extremely sad to see that I was right.
Even as we have freshly ousted Saddam for blocking weapons inspections we now catch Iran red handed for the exact same behavior. I think the time has come for military action to disarm Iran using precision air strikes. Perhaps Iran could even be called the nucleus of Islamic fascism in the world. Islamic Fundamentalism saw its beginnings their and is hated by the average Iranian citizen forced to live their. Indeed a democracy movement has control of certain departments of the government and has made some minor inroads against the Mullahs and their bands of armed thugs. Indeed it is this democracy movement has recently provided information about Iran’s program to enrich uranium for the construction of atomic bombs. We should use this information to decapitate Iran’s nuclear program before it’s too late and the reign of the Mullahs becomes uncontestable by military action.
America has shown a great ability to win wars but her lack of attention to what goes on in the world means she looses the peace whenever there is a good chance the peace will be lost. During the roaring 90’s we enjoyed our great economy while Bill Clinton coddled dictators ignored their weapons programs and known terrorist Yasser Arafat held the distinction of visiting the white house more often then any other media luminary during that time. Clearly America was sending the wrong message to the world during those hopeful years. Even North Korean dictator Kim Jong ill got away with defying treaties and building the first atomic weapons in his country. Now we cannot oust Kim and his Stalinist state from power even if necessity dictated it. Yet to be fair Kim managed to avoid major headlines and worldwide public outrage by the timely arrival of the O.J. Simpson trial to world television networks.
New enemies threaten freedom, progress, and even mankind’s future survival but another long debilitating cold war with another anti democratic ideology need not be the case. We must smash the nuclear programs of Iran and spread western values to the “Middle East” as best we can because there is really on other choice anymore. America has tried leaving the rest of the world alone to trade its goods with us in peace many many times. Perhaps as Americans we forget that even simple trade brings with it ideas. The sheer power of Western ideals is such that evil cowards in many countries cannot bear them and will stop at nothing to see their practitioner’s dead. |
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[Apr. 13th, 2004|07:00 pm] |
Some thoughts on writing journals public and private
This is my first public journal. Till yesterday I did not even know such a nifty program as this existed upon the web. Don't get me wrong, I’ve heard about BLOG’ing before but the news simply passed by me without so much as a shrug. One Marine Corps chaplain (actually navy) described journal writing as a moment of Zen. He recommended I try it and I did (in a half hearted sort of way). I suppose it was too easy and too safe to keep a private journal. In a private journal you can write just about any off the cuff thing without repercussions (unless you’re a senator! {Bob Packwood anyone}{Ted Kennedy perhaps}).
Writing private journals was just too easy to safe too sanitary to be truly meaty and satisfying. Yet showing a private journal to ones acquaintances is not a good idea. Sane honesty is sharing a version of your thoughts, as close to your actual thoughts as possible, while still having at least a couple of friends left in the world when you are done sharing. Therefore few of my punches will be pulled but I may hesitate a few days to publish the rawest coarsest ideas that come to mind. At least, ill hold onto the most controversial heavy stuff, until I can make it sound more humorous or diplomatic. Matt who introduced me to this medium, did not do so to create hardcore ciaos. I much prefer the soft-core semi controllable variety of verbal mayhem!!
Flaming is not allowed and if I can ill ban anybody who does it (once I get the hang of the interface). I don’t expect flaming to be a real problem yet I hope I don’t half to chalk up that expectation to blatant naivety anytime it the future. Just use some god given/ evolution endowed/ or logically derived common sense. Talking dirty in a sexy smart and graphic way, is encouraged especially if you’re a lady with a hot photo but not mandatory by any means. :)
Expect that I will refer to all groups of people in a male pronoun unless the group referred too is entirely made up of women. Impressive wonders of nature, naval and civilian ships, and nations of the world or less often the world itself will often be referred to as she or other female pronoun. This is considered old style writing but then again I let this be an early warning that I am not a politically correct sort of guy and I hope you the genteel and not so genteel reader are prepared.
Consider yourself welcomed who comes and welcomes me…… |
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